{"id":26156,"date":"2016-03-04T11:31:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T16:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=26156"},"modified":"2016-03-17T12:25:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T16:25:03","slug":"june-12-2015-rancher-nuns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/03\/04\/june-12-2015-rancher-nuns\/26156\/","title":{"rendered":" Rancher Nuns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We take you to Virginia Dale, Colorado, where a community of Benedictine nuns live a life of prayer and work on a 300-acre cattle ranch. At the Abbey of St. Walburga, situated among grassy meadows and snow-capped mountains, the sisters sing the psalms, pray, and raise cows for the grass-fed organic beef they produce. \u201cHere we make it our mission to praise God all day long, all night long, with our entire lives, and to also be a place where others can come and find God,\u201d says Sister Maria Gertrude, the abbey\u2019s bee keeper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou have here a silence that just breathes in you the greatness of God,\u201d says Mother Superior Maria Michael of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Walburga, situated among grassy meadows and snow-capped Colorado mountains. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/03\/04\/june-12-2015-rancher-nuns\/26156\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":26193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[5824,8160,6685,5198,6717,6716],"class_list":["post-26156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-benedictine","tag-farms","tag-monastic-women","tag-nuns","tag-religious-community","tag-st-benedict","topics-faith-and-spirituality","faith-catholic"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rancher Nuns | June 12, 2015 | Religion &amp; 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